OBJECTIVETo analyze the authors, the organizations and regional distribution of these authors of Chinese Journal of Preventive Medicine, and ascertain the core authors, core organizations and core regions.

METHODSUsing quantitative analysis method, the authors, co-authors and the core authors of papers published in between 1996 to 2005 were analysed. Also, the distributions of districts and highly quantitative organization were determined statistically.

RESULTSThere were 722 articles published during the last ten years; 510 authors had only published one paper, accounting for 70.64% of the total first authors. There were 712 articles having one or more co-authors, the cooperatively rate and degree were 98.61% and 5.54, respectively. There were 10 papers with single author, which accounted for 1.39% of total papers. The number of papers from universities, institutes and affiliated hospitals were 366 (50.69%), 229 (31.72%) and 78 (10.80%), respectively. There were 90 core authors publishing 212 (29.36%) papers, while 13 highly-quantities organizations published 303 (41.97%) papers. The core region was Beijing, in which there were published 231 (31.99%) articles.

CONCLUSIONAuthors of the Chinese Journal of Preventive Medicine should have a wide distribution and highly cooperative rate. There are a group of active and talented core authors, who have offered a great influence on the Journal.